Papilio homothoas
| Papilio homothoas | |
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| Plate accompanying original description (figure 13) | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Papilionidae |
| Genus: | Papilio |
| Species: | P. homothoas
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| Binomial name | |
| Papilio homothoas Rothschild & Karl Jordan, 1906
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Papilio homothoas, the false giant swallowtail, is a species of swallowtail butterfly from the genus Papilio that is found in Colombia, Venezuela, Trinidad, Panama, and Costa Rica.[1][2]
Description
P. homothoas R. & J. (7c). Tail shorter and more rounded at the tip than in the thoas-forms from South America; no cell-spot on the forewing. Genitalia quite different from the organs of P. thoas; instead left of the long anal clasper of thoas there is a short fork, the teeth of which are curved right and harpe broad, rounded. Orinoco, Colombia, Marguerita Island off the coast of Venezuela. [3]
Biology
The larvae of P. homothoas feed on plants of the genera Ruta and Citrus (Rutaceae).
Taxonomy
Papilio machaonides is a member of the Papilio thoas species group.
References
- ^ False Giant Swallowtail, Butterflies of America
- ^ Papilio at Funet
- ^ Jordan, K. in Seitz, A.(1908).The Macrolepidoptera of the World 9: The Rhopalocera of the Indo-Australian faunal region . Papilionidae 11-118. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.